Her muse is a stickler for accuracy, says Ventura artist Gail Faulkner, which is why her upcoming solo show at the Buenaventura Gallery is titled “Every Little Detail.”

Faulkner paints crisp watercolor still life that she composes from the fruits of nature and her own eclectic collection of baskets and other containers. Examples of her meticulous work will be on display March 27-April 21 at the downtown Ventura gallery. An opening reception will be 4-7 p.m. March 31.

She took art courses throughout school, Faulkner says, but put art aside for a career in the medical field. In her 30s, she left that to again pursue her love of art at the Philadelphia College of Art and at Sanski Art Center in Haddonfield, N.J. She moved to California, took more art studies at UCLA, and began a successful second career as a graphic designer.

Faulkner found her passion for watercolors rather recently at painting workshops, studying over the past eight years with such accomplished artists and teachers as Norman Kirk and Paul Jackson, and has been painting in earnest about five years. In that short time, she’s collected numerous awards, including first place in watercolors three times running at the Santa Paula Society for the Arts’ annual show.

Capturing minute details and rendering light and shadow are favorite parts of her creative process, Faulkner says, but also the most challenging. She “paints tight,” she says, and though she earlier fought the tendency, now realizes it’s hers. Many paintings are of objects placed on highly reflective tables, which doubles the challenges.

Faulkner’s realistic tableaux will be exhibited at the Buenaventura Gallery, 700 E. Santa Clara St. Hours are noon-5 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays. For more information, visit their website at www.BuenaventuraGallery.org.